Download or read book NRA written by Jeffrey L. Rodengen and published by Write Stuff Syndicate. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NRA: An American Legend is the official account of the history of the National Rifle Association. From a humble beginning over 131 years ago the volume recounts the story of the organization including several hundred photos.
Download or read book John Henry an American Legend written by Ezra Jack Keats and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Legend written by Buddy Levy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a U.S. congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied sales and prompted the first-ever “official” book tour for its enormously popular author. Down-to-earth, heroic and independent to a fault, the real Crockett became lost in his own hype, and he’s been overshadowed by a larger-than-life, pop-culture character in a coonskin cap. Now, American Legend debunks the tall tales to reveal the fascinating truth of Crockett’s hardscrabble childhood, his near-death experiences, his unlikely rise to Congress, and the controversial last stand at the Alamo that mythologized him beyond recognition. In this beautifully written narrative, Crockett emerges as never before: a rugged individual, a true American original, and an enduring symbol of the Western frontier. “A great myth-busting story [that] presents Davy Crockett as a man of genius and folly, which has the unlikely effect of making him all the more heroic.”—Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus and Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone “As spellbinding and dramatic as any novel and as compelling as any reportage.”—Peter Hoffer, Distinguished Research Professor of History, The University of Georgia
Download or read book Feast Day of Fools written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed novel from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary masterpiece. James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a serial killer presumed dead is very much alive…and where sheriff Hackberry Holland, now a widower, fights for survival—his own, and of the citizens he’s sworn to protect. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert, Hackberry’s investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies any knowledge of the attack, but something in her aristocratic beauty seduces Hack into overlooking that she is as dangerous as the men she harbors. And when soulless Preacher Jack Collins reemerges, the cold-blooded killer may prove invaluable to Hackberry. This time, he and the Preacher have a common enemy.
Download or read book Thompson the American Legend written by Tracie L. Hill and published by Cobourg, Ont. : Collector Grade Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hobey Baker written by Emil R. Salvini and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank Sinatra written by Nancy Sinatra and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1995 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a detailed look at the film actor and singer's life by his daughter
Download or read book The Searchers written by Glenn Frankel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the making of the influential 1950s film inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, sharing details of Parker's 1836 abduction by the Comanche and her return to white culture twenty-four years later.
Download or read book Corvette written by Julia J. Quinlan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chevrolet Corvette has been around since the 1950s. It is so well known for its speed and reliability that it is used as an Indy 500 pace car. This volume profiles each of the Corvettes six generations, which shows the evolution the model has undergone, while remaining at its core one of Americas favorite sports cars.
Download or read book Madame Alexander Dolls written by Stephanie Finnegan and published by Portfolio Press (NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color, illustrated, comprehensive book on the legendary American doll-maker and the company she founded in 1923, is also the first ever produced with the co-operation of the Alexander Doll Company and Madame Alexander's family. This book features a rich compilation of photographs, which bring to life the magical legacy of Madame Alexander. Collectors of both historical and contemporary dolls will be happy with the book's collection of 758 mint dolls dating from 1930-1998.
Download or read book Steel Drivin Man written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains. Using census data, penitentiary reports, and railroad company reports, Nelson reveals how John Henry, victimized by Virginia's notorious Black Codes, was shipped to the infamous Richmond Penitentiary to become prisoner number 497, and was forced to labor on the mile-long Lewis Tunnel for the C&O railroad. Equally important, Nelson masterfully captures the life of the ballad of John Henry, tracing the song's evolution from the first printed score by blues legend W. C. Handy, to Carl Sandburg's use of the ballad to become the first "folk singer," to the upbeat version by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Attractively illustrated with numerous images, Steel Drivin' Man offers a marvelous portrait of a beloved folk song--and a true American legend.
Download or read book America in Legend written by Richard M. Dorson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1974-08-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of American folklore from colonial times to the present.
Download or read book Denim written by Iain Finlayson and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1990 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Satchel written by Larry Tye and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige “Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and Major Leaguers, talking to family and friends who had never told their stories before, and retracing Paige’s steps across the continent. Here is the stirring account of the child born to an Alabama washerwoman with twelve young mouths to feed, the boy who earned the nickname “Satchel” from his enterprising work as a railroad porter, the young man who took up baseball on the streets and in reform school, inventing his trademark hesitation pitch while throwing bricks at rival gang members. Tye shows Paige barnstorming across America and growing into the superstar hurler of the Negro Leagues, a marvel who set records so eye-popping they seemed like misprints, spent as much money as he made, and left tickets for “Mrs. Paige” that were picked up by a different woman at each game. In unprecedented detail, Tye reveals how Paige, hurt and angry when Jackie Robinson beat him to the Majors, emerged at the age of forty-two to help propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. He threw his last pitch from a big-league mound at an improbable fifty-nine. (“Age is a case of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”) More than a fascinating account of a baseball odyssey, Satchel rewrites our history of the integration of the sport, with Satchel Paige in a starring role. This is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a shuffling stereotype to disarm critics and racists, floated comical legends about himself–including about his own age–to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and in the process methodically built his own myth. “Don’t look back,” he famously said. “Something might be gaining on you.” Separating the truth from the legend, Satchel is a remarkable accomplishment, as large as this larger-than-life man.
Download or read book Judy Garland written by David Shipman and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly-acclaimed biography, Shipman tells the whole story of this doomed and deified performer: her days as a child star, the daughter of a gay father; her ascension to teenage stardom; her introduction to drugs by MGM; her years of alcoholism and substance abuse; her relationship with daughter Liza Minelli; and more. Photos.
Download or read book The Heart of Everything That Is written by Bob Drury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.
Download or read book Winchester written by Robert Lawrence Wilson and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and detailed history of Winchester firearms and ammunition includes photographs of hundreds of models
